Biola University 2014–15 Catalog
TTMN 825 - Discipleship and Community Relationships I During this class, students explore the relationship of the biological community, the family, with the spiritual community, the church. Family developmental experts guide students to elaborate the working relationship between family and church discipleship and how they can support and promote each other. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 826 - Discipleship and Community Relationships II This class expands the study begun in TTMN 825 to include a strategy for developing discipleship relations between the local church and various external communities, including parachurch ministries. Veteran Christian leaders guide students through an examination of strategies to build a local discipleship community that reaches into their neighborhood, school, workplace, and the world. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 827 - Foundations of Executive Management Students gain a biblical and theological basis for management in the local church and learn to critically reflect on the advantages and disadvantages of various governance models in local church ministry. Students develop a strategic plan for their particular ministry. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 828 - Personal Strengths Assessment Students learn how to gain a better understanding of their own strengths and spiritual gifts. Students are then guided into how best to apply their personal strengths to their present area of ministry leadership. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 829 - Finances, Facilities and Fundraising Students develop a biblical understanding of stewardship from a broad perspective. Students learn proper account management, facilities planning, and ethical techniques of fundraising for both operational budgets and capital campaigns. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 830 - Legal and Ethical Issues in Executive Management Students learn how the legal system affects the development and operation of churches as well as ethical dilemmas being faced in complex ministries today. Issues such as staff hiring, firing, liability concerns, and policy development are covered. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 831 - Personnel Development and Human Resource Management Extensive overview of matters pertaining to recruiting, training and developing volunteer and paid staff ministry leaders. Students learn how to develop policies and procedures, conduct in-service training seminars, and how best to mentor leaders. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 832 - The XP Tool Box This course covers a variety of topics, including PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique) charting for effective program management, overseeing information technology, working through teams, becoming a change agent, handling conflict resolution, and personal career development. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 833 - Developing Life Groups and Transforming Communities Life Groups and Transforming Communities form the platform for pastoral counseling ministries and marriage and family ministries as well as student’s leadership development. First students will learn compassionate connecting skills and how to teach them to church leaders. Then we will look at Life Groups with a pastor who uses them as his primary strategy for developing more and closer followers of Jesus. Third, we will explore Transforming Communities and their roles in healing individuals and marriages as well as developing volunteer ministers. Students design a plan to develop Life Groups or Transforming Communities in their churches, and receive feedback. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 834 - Counseling Individuals, Couples and Families This course focuses on how to help individuals, couples and families realize their conflicts and take responsibility for the changes that will dismantle their barriers to God and each other. The goal is not to turn students into Pastoral Counselors but to equip students to develop those in their churches who are gifted to develop transforming ministries including mentoring with individuals, couples and families. Students demonstrate competency in the skills of a Christ-Church multi-level model for counseling individuals, couples and families and to demonstrate awareness of personal limits by setting default decisions for counseling and referral. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 835 - Developing Redemptive Family Ministries I The focus of this class is on developing family and counseling ministries in church that will meet some of the needs of people in neighborhoods as well as the people in the congregation, and be on-ramps to evangelism. Students design and/or develop a Redemptive Family Ministry appropriate to a student’s church’s needs, goals and resources. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6.
TTMN 836 - Developing Redemptive Family Ministries II This course challenges and equips students to develop a plan for ministry to people in a selected form of non-traditional family structure. This course will equip students (and through them, their leaders) to reach people in family structures that don’t normally experience churches as open to them. The residency outcome will be to write and develop this plan for a classmate and obtain your professor’s evaluation. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 837 - Ministering to People in Addictive Bondage This class will extend the focus of the second residency to minister to people both in and outside a student’s church who are living in addictive bondage. Examples of bondage are alcoholism, drug addiction, sex addiction, gambling as well as more common addictions such as addiction to eating and smoking. The residency outcome will be a workable plan addressing these issues. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 838 - Ministering to People in the Wake of Crisis, Loss and Trauma This class equips students and their churches to minister in the wake of individual, family and neighborhood crisis, loss and trauma. Recent catastrophes such as 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina showed the need for thousands of volunteers who have been trained to respond to spiritual and emotional needs. People in your church can be equipped to minister in the wake of shootings, accidents, and bereavement in your neighborhoods as well as the larger traumas such as earthquakes and firestorms. Students develop contingency plans for their ministry. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 839 - Understanding Worldviews and Culture I Designed to produce confidence in engaging worldviews in a manner that is culturally relevant and theologically and philosophically informed. Students examine the nature of a worldview, and probe the foundations of the two major worldviews that rival Christianity and shape our culture: naturalism and postmodernism. Students interact with the strengths and weaknesses of the emergent church movement and address open theism. Time will be given to Islam, a rising influence in our culture, and students will learn ways Christians can reach Muslims. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 840 - Understanding Worldviews and Culture II Students learn how to think Christianly in the midst of worldview conflict and cultural chaos. Four areas of conceptual clarity examined: (1) crucial notions in metaphysics relevant to preaching, the nature of reality, the reality of truth, love, life after death, and God Himself; (2) crucial notions in epistemology at the center of cultural conflict; (3) the nature of consciousness and human persons; and (4) important issues in science and religion, reductionism, and the Intelligent Design debate. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 841 - Engaging Worldviews and Culture I Leadership tools in the areas of ethics and politics. Addresses how to help people to think ethically by evaluating relativism, moral absolutism, utilitarianism, and virtue ethics, and to consider individual impact upon character development and discipleship. Students learn about issues such as abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research, cloning, capital punishment, just war theory and homosexuality. Since we live in a political world, the course includes a look at the different views of the Kingdom of God, the church/state relationship, Christian political engagement and social justice. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 842 - Engaging Worldviews and Culture II Students examine specific cultural issues and voices. Students learn about and discuss culturally significant books, movies, events and leaders. Students also learn about the nature of the modern secular university: how it developed, why it is so hostile to Christianity, how it impacts the church and what can be done about it. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 843 - Reclaiming Worldviews and Culture I Students gain skills needed to defend Christianity and to equip the local church for boldness in evangelism and cultural engagement. Students form answers to issues such as the existence of God, pluralism and the exclusivity of Christianity, challenges to the historical Jesus, the problem of evil, and the fairness of hell. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 844 - Reclaiming Worldviews and Culture II Students learn practical ministry implications of previous coursework. Students examine the nature of spiritual formation and discipleship, learn how to discern the voice of God and His guidance, learn how to foster a healthy, balanced experiential knowledge of God and His Spirit within the Christian religious tradition, and the criteria for discerning answers to prayer. Students also learn how to preach apologetically and how apologetics and worldview can be applied to youth ministry. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6.
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